A bright beautiful pumpkin is a garden decoration, but it can also be a table decoration if it is skillfully prepared. Different nations have their favorite dishes from this attractive and very healthy vegetable. One of the best ways to cook pumpkin is roasting. In this case, it saves a lot of useful substances, it turns out soft, delicate and fragrant. Many people like pumpkin with apples baked in the oven. The recipe for this dish is represented by several options, each of which has its advantages.
Cooking Features
Pumpkin with apples can be baked whole, taking out the pulp with seeds and stuffing it with fruit, or slices. This harmonious duet is well complemented with fresh berries or dried fruits, honey and nuts. The composition depends on the specific recipe, and the technology may also partially depend on it. However, there are a few general rules that you need to know no matter what recipe you intend to bake the pumpkin with apples.
- The pumpkin is baked slowly, so you need to cook it for a long time. Apples will become softer faster. Therefore, for baking with pumpkin, you need to choose hard fruits.
- A pumpkin of sweet varieties is more suitable for baking with apples. Preference is better to give one that has a bright orange flesh.
- Pumpkin lacks sourness, apples brighten up this drawback, but you can add them with lemon juice. Then the taste and aroma of the finished dish will be more saturated.
- When checking the readiness of a dish, one should pay attention to the degree of readiness of the pumpkin. To do this, you can pierce it with a fork or knife. If it is soft, then it is ready, and if the pumpkin has managed to bake, the rest of the products are baked.
Knowing these subtleties, you can safely proceed to the preparation of dishes according to your favorite recipe.
Pumpkin, baked whole with apples
Composition:
- pumpkin - 1, 5 kg;
- apples - 0.5 kg;
- butter - 30 g;
- sour cream - 80 g;
- walnut kernels - 50 g;
- raisins - 100 g;
- cinnamon - 2-3 g;
- sugar - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the pumpkin well and cut off the top with its tail. Do not throw away the top - it will replace the cap.
- Remove the pulp from the pumpkin seeds.
- Wash apples, remove the core. Cut the fruit into cubes of medium size.
- Place the apple slices in a pan with melted butter and lightly fry so that excess moisture evaporates.
- Wash the raisins and pat dry.
- Chop walnut kernels with a knife.
- Mix apple slices with raisins and nuts.
- Fill a pumpkin with filling, sprinkle it with cinnamon.
- Mix sour cream with sugar and fill it with filling.
- Set the pumpkin, covered with a cut off top, into a form and send it to the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. After an hour, check the pumpkin readiness. If it is hard, bake it for another 20-30 minutes.
It is better to serve such a pumpkin to the table without cutting, so that guests can enjoy this spectacle and marvel at your culinary talents. At the table, the pumpkin can be cut into pieces, spread out on plates, next to put apple stuffing.
Pumpkin Baked with Apples and Honey
Composition:
- pumpkin - 0, 5 kg;
- apples - 0, 3 kg;
- honey - 0, 2 kg;
- water - 100 ml;
- cinnamon - 5 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the pumpkin, dry it, peel it. Cut, remove the seeds. Cut the flesh into small pieces.
- Wash apples, cut a core out of them. Cut into semicircular slices.
- Put the pumpkin and apple pieces on a baking sheet, alternating them in an arbitrary way.
- Dissolve honey with warm water, pour pumpkin-apple mixture with this liquid.
- Place in the oven and bake at a minimum temperature of one and a half to two hours. If the temperature is about 160 degrees, then bake more than an hour is not worth it.
Sprinkle cinnamon in the dish before serving — it will accentuate its flavor. Pumpkin and apples can be cut into this dish not into slices, but into cubes - in this case, it will cook faster. If you do not eat honey because of allergies, you can pour pumpkin with a thick sugar syrup. Before it the pumpkin cut into pieces can be sprinkled with lemon juice.
Dessert from baked pumpkin with apples
Composition:
- pumpkin - 0, 3 kg;
- apples - 0, 2 kg;
- lemon juice - 5 ml;
- cinnamon - 2-3 g;
- egg white - 2 pcs .;
- walnuts - 50 g;
- raisins - 50 g;
- butter - 20 g;
- icing sugar - 120 g.
Method of preparation:
- Pour the raisins with warm water and leave for 10 minutes. Then drain the water, let the dried fruit dry a little.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees. For a moment, put an empty baking dish in it. A perfect shape for cakes with a diameter of 20 cm, but you can use a similar other size and shape. However, in this case, the number of ingredients used will have to be proportionally increased.
- While the form is cold, brush it with a piece of butter.
- Cut apples into 8 slices, cut the core.
- Cut pumpkin pulp into slices approximately the same size as apple slices.
- Spread the pieces into shape. Sprinkle with lemon juice, sprinkle with raisins and cinnamon.
- Place the form in a preheated oven and bake the dish for 20 minutes.
- Finely chop the nuts with a knife.
- Cool squirrels. Beat with a mixer in a dense foam, gradually introducing icing sugar. Continue to whip, add the nuts.
- Remove from the oven form with pumpkin and apple platter. Top with freshly cooked nut meringue, flatten with a spoon.
- Return the mold to the oven, reducing the temperature to 150-160 degrees. Continue to bake for another half hour.
The sour-sweet flesh of apples and fragrant pumpkin under a layer of tender meringue looks very appetizing. The taste of this dish is unique and harmonious. After trying once, you will cook this dessert from a pumpkin baked with apples again and again.
Pumpkin, baked with apples in the oven, is an easy-to-prepare dish that can decorate a festive table.
